11/25/2024
Self Care Sunday
Health Literacy 101: Identifying your pain can better help you and your massage therapist come up with a treatment plan. Pain is complex. Everyone experiences pain differently. Pain in the massage community has expanded to include factors such as mental health, cultural influences, socioeconomic circumstances, spirituality, and generational curses.
The three major types of pain are:
Nerve Pain: pain caused by trauma or damage to nerves. Nerve pain is typically experienced as burning, itching, stinging, stabbing, tingling, or electric sensations
Somatic Pain: pain caused by trauma or damage to soft tissues such as bone, muscle, and skin. Somatic pain is localized, constant and stimulated by movement. Somatic pain can be superficial or deep. It can be experienced as cramps, soreness, sharp, or aching.
Visceral Pain: pain caused by trauma or damage to internal organs. Visceral pain can be felt in the chest, abdomen, and pelvis. It is experienced often as dull, hard to pinpoint, and more spread out.
